Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 30 | 31 | It View more quotes about seemed">seemed to me that under the circumstances, while I was still my own master, I should perhaps slay myself. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 30 | 28 | Parp looked at me closely. |
| 30 | 29 | "Treve," he said. |
| 30 | 30 | I closed my eyes. |
| 30 | 31 | It seemed to me that under the circumstances, while I was still my own master, I should perhaps slay myself. |
| 30 | 32 | Otherwise I would be used as a weapon by Sarm, used to injure and destroy my friends. |
| 30 | 33 | The thought of suicide has always horrified me, for life seems precious, and the mortal moments that one has, so brief a glimpse of the vistas of reality, it seems to me should be cherished, even though they might be lived in pain or sorrow. |
| 30 | 34 | But under the circumstances—it seemed that I should perhaps surrender the gift of life, for there are some things more precious than life, and were it not so I think that life itself would not be as precious as it is. |
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Parp looked at me closely.
"Treve," he said.
I closed my eyes.
It seemed to me that under the circumstances, while I was still my own master, I should perhaps slay myself.
Otherwise I would be used as a weapon by Sarm, used to injure and destroy my friends.
The thought of suicide has always horrified me, for life seems precious, and the mortal moments that one has, so brief a glimpse of the vistas of reality, it seems to me should be cherished, even though they might be lived in pain or sorrow.
But under the circumstances—it seemed that I should perhaps surrender the gift of life, for there are some things more precious than life, and were it not so I think that life itself would not be as precious as it is.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)